Atya

Atya is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, ranging through the Antilles[1] and along the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Central and South America and in western Africa.[2] It contains the following species:[3]

  • Atya abelei Felgenhauer & Martin, 1983
  • Atya africana Bouvier, 1904
  • Atya brachyrhinus Hobbs & Hart, 1982
  • Atya crassa (Smith, 1871)
  • Atya dressleri Abele, 1975
  • Atya gabonensis Giebel, 1875
  • Atya innocous (Herbst, 1792)
  • Atya intermedia Bouvier, 1904
  • Atya lanipes Holthuis, 1963
  • Atya limnetes Holthuis, 1986
  • Atya margaritacea A. Milne-Edwards, 1874
  • Atya ortmannioides Villalobos, 1956
  • Atya scabra (Leach, 1815)
For the Romanian village of Atea, called Atya in Hungarian, see Dorolţ.

Atya
Atya gabonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Caridea
Family:
Atyidae
Genus:
Atya

Leach, 1815

References
  1. "Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans" (PDF). US Fish & Wildlife Service. US Fish & Wildlife Service.
  2. Horton H. Hobbs Jr. & C. W. Hart Jr. (1982). "The shrimp genus Atya (Decapoda: Atyidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 364: 143 pp. hdl:10088/5544.
  3. Charles Fransen (2013). "Atya Leach, 1816". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 21, 2013.


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